Illness compounded the hardships of campaigning in such a primitive region. As Baker and Lincoln stumped Egypt, they found themselves “shaking with the ague one day, and addressing the people the next.” In the absence of railroads and stage lines, they had to ride on horseback with their clothes jammed into saddlebags. They covered vast distances through swamp and over prairie, all the while enduring miserable accommodations. But “no matter how tired, jaded and worn the speaker might be, he was obliged to respond to the call of the waiting and eager audiences.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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